Williams, Iowa
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 Location in Iowa
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| Basic data | |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Iowa |
| County : | Hamilton County |
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 29 ′ N , 93 ° 33 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 427 (as of: 2000) |
| Population density : | 185.7 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 2.3 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) of which 2.3 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 371 m |
| Postal code : | 50271 |
| Area code : | +1 515 |
| FIPS : | 19-85800 |
| GNIS ID : | 0463052 |
Williams is a city in Hamilton County in the US state of Iowa . In 2000 Williams had 427 residents.
geography
Williams is located in northern Iowa. The next bigger cities are Ames and Waterloo . Williams is about 95 kilometers north of Des Moines and about 166 kilometers northwest of Cedar Rapids .
According to the United States Census Bureau , the village has a total area of 2.3 km², which consists only of land.
history
On July 15, 1859, Williams H. Merrit founded a town called Mettamora on his own land. He laid out 121 parcels, some of which he sold to investors in the eastern United States, but otherwise the new town on the prairie aroused little interest. The chief planner for the Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad finally went to Williams to get permission to run the railroad over the land of Merrits. Eventually Blair laid out a town about three kilometers north of Mettamora, which he named after Major William Williams of Fort Dodge . The first post office in the new settlement opened on October 13, 1869, even before Williams was officially registered, and the first postmaster - a man named Isaac Brown - was also the first railroad employee. Williams was incorporated as a town on October 22, 1883, and BF Corbin was elected the city's first mayor. There were doubts about the legality of the founding act and the incorporation was initially revoked in 1884.
The first school opened in 1870 and was about 1 kilometer from Williams. A new school was built opposite the Harrison Hotel in 1875. It only had one room, like many schools in Hamilton County. It was replaced by a new building in 1881 and due to lack of space a larger school building was built in the east of the city in 1893. This was used until 1918. After that, a high school was built in the southern part of Williams. This was expanded in 1957 to include a sports hall and an auditorium. In the 1960s the schools of Blairsburg, Kamrar and Williams were reorganized and the school operations were relocated to Blairsburg.
traffic
Williams was on the Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad, which eventually became part of the Illinois Central Railroad. At the beginning of the 1920s, a country road was built on the south side of the municipality with federal funds. The so-called Grant Highway was later renamed Hawkeye Highway and eventually became a section of US Highway 20 , which leads east to Alden . Eventually the highway was expanded to four lanes and the old route was designated as Iowa State Route 928 . The inner-city streets in north-south direction are named after trees, the three east-west axes are numbered consecutively.
Demographics
At the time of the United States Census 2000, Williams inhabited 427 people. The population density was 187.3 people per km ². There were 193 housing units at an average of 84.7 per km ². The Williams population was 98.36% white , 1.64% said they were of other races , and 2.58% of the population said they were Hispanic or Latinos of any race.
Williams' residents were distributed among 185 households out of which 25.4% had children under the age of 18. 55.7% of households were married, 8.1% had a female head of the household without a husband and 33.0% were not families. 31.4% of households were made up of individuals and someone lived in 18.4% of all households aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.31 and the average family size was 2.85 people.
The population was divided into 24.8% minors, 6.8% 18–24 year olds, 27.4% 25–44 year olds, 20.6% 45–64 year olds and 20.4% aged 65 years or more. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 women there were 100.5 men. For every 100 women over 18, there were 92.2 men.
The median household income in William was 36,250 US dollars and the median family income reached the amount of 41,094 US dollars. The median income for men was $ 27,667, compared to $ 22,188 for women. The per capita income was $ 16,000. 2.2% of the population and 0% of families had an income below the poverty line , including 0% of minors and 7.8% of those aged 65 and over.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c William, Iowa - founded in 1869 ( English ) Martin E. Nass. Archived from the original on May 9, 2008. Retrieved March 9, 2009.